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Overall, the recession hit bottom in April 1958 in the jig time of nine months-two months faster than the 1949 recession and a full four months sooner than in 1954. At times, particularly during February and March, the current slide was sharper than in the other two recessions. But so was the upturn. Gross national product has apparently turned around after dropping for two quarters, v. a year of backing and filling in 1949 and a year of decline in the 1954 business downturn. Industrial production recovered in eight months, v. eleven months and twelve months before any steady...
Junketing about North Korea last week, Chinese Premier Chou En-lai inspected a fertilizer factory, improvised a five-minute jig for North Korean Premier Kim II Sung, and announced that the horde of "Chinese People's volunteers" who volunteered into the Korean war in 1950 would volunteer themselves back to China again by the end of the year. Of course, he continued, "this confronts the U.S. with an inescapable obligation to similarly withdraw...
...Alabama's Racist State Senator Sam Engelhardt Jr., if you can't lick 'em, the best thing to do is scatter 'em. Panicky because Negro vote strength was rising in his county seat of Tuskegee (pop. 6,700), Engelhardt last May authored a gerrymander that jig-sawed more than 400 Negro residents-and the respected Negro Tuskegee Institute-outside the city's limits. Forthwith, the city of Tuskegee was hard hit by a Negro boycott (TIME, July 8) that slashed white merchants' business 50%, shut down stores that depended primarily on Negro trade. Incensed...
...Harbor. From a onetime lady-in-waiting at the Czarist court, whom he found in New Jersey, Stuart once got 8,000 precious feet of royal family life, including the Czar swimming in the buff. Sometimes unusual film gets scrapped. Example: a shot of Charlie Chaplin doing a little jig for visiting Winston Churchill in Hollywood in 1929. Twentieth Century Producer Burton ("Bud") Benjamin reluctantly threw it out of his hour-long show on Churchill (TIME, Oct. 28) because "it had no place in our story...
...Quare Fellow, a Manhattan-bound three-act play that won critical applause in London last year, Irish Puppeteer Behan performs a farcical jig on the trap in the Hanging and Flogging wing of a prison remarkably like Dublin's Mountjoy Prison. His "Quare Fellow," who never appears in the play, is one of two men waiting for the public hangman to come from Britain to execute them for murder. One, whom the prisoners call "Silver-top," had beaten his wife to death with a walking stick. The Quare Fellow had killed his brother and, using his skill...